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Rescue for the rescuer.

4 The Love Of Animals

A few signs that YOU may need Rescue: you can not stop rescuing animals. your personal life starts to suffer as a result of taking on the animals suffering. you stop having fun because you feel guilty when there are so many animals currently suffering. you lose interest in social activities and friends.

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Henry S. Salt (1851-1939) on "Humane Slaughter"

Animal Ethics

More barbarous, or less barbarous, such slaughtering may undoubtedly be, according to the methods employed, but the "humane" slaughtering, so much bepraised of the sophist, is an impossibility in fact and a contradiction in terms. Henry S.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

Rest assured that if you are purchasing meat from your favorite fast food restaurant, your favorite sit-down chain restaurant, or your local grocery store, you are purchasing the flesh of a tortured animal. Is it necessary for us to kill animals for food? Or are we killing animals unnecessarily when we kill them for food?